Petra Costa director, Alessandra Orofino producer, "Apocalypse In The tropics". A documentary on the rise of the rightwing in the world, using Brazil as an example, and the chances to overcome that trend.
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"Apocalypse in the Tropics", interview with the director Pedra Costa and producer Alessandra OrofinoAngelo Acerbi
“Apocalypse in the Tropics ” is a documentary by Petra Costa, presented Out of Competition at he 81st Venice International film Festival. The film is an analytical account of the rise of right-wing power in Brazil, with Bolsonaro and the fundamentalist church, and the reflection of this trend in the world, using Brazilian events as a universal mirror.
The double meaning of the term ‘apocalypse’
Petra Costa, with the title “Apocalypse in the Tropics “, wanted to present the double meaning of the term: on the one hand, disaster and the end of everything, but on the other hand, according to the meaning in Greek, which is ‘revelation’, to remove the veil and discover what lies beneath. So: how did we get into this situation and what should we do to get out of it.
Faith is the key to everything, not just religion
Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino explain how at the basis of the film is the realisation that faith moves everything, even the decline of democracy. When we lose faith in democracy, new forces arise: you need to trust something and the strongest person imposes himself.
Plot
When does a democracy end, and a theocracy begins? In Apocalypse in the Tropics, Petra Costa investigates the increasingly powerful grip that faith leaders hold over politics in Brazil. She gains extraordinary access to the country’s top political leaders, including President Lula and former President Bolsonaro, as well as to Brazil’s most famous televangelist: a larger-than-life pastor who plays the puppet master to the far-right leader. The film chronicles the profound role the evangelical movement has played in Brazil’s recent political turmoil, and it also grapples with the apocalyptic theology that drives the movement’s chief protagonists. As in her Academy-Award nominated The Edge of Democracy, Costa documents a time of profound confusion and despair with lucidity and a poetic eye. Weaving together past and present, she immerses us in the contradictory realities of a young democracy that is hanging on by a thread, and, in so doing, holds up a mirror to the rest of the world.
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